Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Soto and all of my colleagues for helping me honor this remarkable woman. Mr. Speaker, I will close with this. I think every Member can appreciate that their chief of staff, really their entire congressional staff, but their chief of staff is often a person we spend more time with than we spend with any member of our family, including our spouses and significant others. It is someone who needs to put up with us and tolerate the highs and lows. Tracie has done all that and more. She has taken calls at all hours of the night. Then, in the morning, she has always made herself available. The sacrifices that all of our staff members make to be able to help us be successful and make sure that our constituents are able to have their representation maximized is truly remarkable. Tracie and I have been through marriage, children, raising those children, helping one another raise our children; appointments to committees for me, like the Appropriations Committee in my second term, becoming a cardinal on my first day; being diagnosed, beating, and surviving breast cancer; and chairing the Democratic National Committee, and surviving the aftermath of that experience, including threats, bomb threats, international hacks.…”